Smarts

I used to write like this author and eventually I learned that at least for me I was pleasing myself or getting lost in the endless labyrinths of my mind rather than communicating effectively with others. I understand however that academic/research environments also require this kind of style for credibility and that is ok too.

I also learned that actually people do not care much for facts or evidence as we pre-select them anyhow based on our belief systems and emotional predisposition. Accordingly every wisdom tradition in the world has agreed that objective knowledge does not exist, but at some other level kind of does, how fun.

The other thing I learned is that most data itself is highly suspect. After 20 years in my industry reading a lot of nonsense published year after year in terms of surveys, data and facts I finally got it how false data becomes official "serious" data. It is a long a windy road and yet this data becomes the support for social, economic and political policies and regulations that create as many problems as they solve.

In terms of objective knowledge I recommend actually biting into a juicy, sweet tasty orange rather than weighting it, measuring it and knowing all about its chemical composition. It sound paradoxical and yes it is because knowledge is more about experience than thinking...paradoxically and mysteriously (or so it seems).